India's premier cold chain and refrigeration industry event, Refcold 2024, led industry conversations on safeguarding food with innovative technologies as its key theme. Nearly half of the 1.3 billion tons of global food wasted each year could be prevented with fully refrigerated food supply chains. Copeland, as a refrigeration and cold chain industry leader, highlighted its scroll inverter solutions to support solar and other renewable-powered cold rooms, enabling remote farms with inadequate grid power supply to safeguard the produce efficiently. In addition, Copeland underscored its ‘Make in India’ commitment for refrigeration solutions and showcased its advanced vapor injection technology to support dairy, seafood and food retail customers achieve high energy efficiency and reduce operational savings in tropical climate conditions.

As a part of the industry showcase, Copeland launched its new ZB refrigeration scroll compressor technology, offering up to 8% higher efficiency on average over the existing product line and superior reliability for medium and high-temperature applications. The new generation compressor technology helps Indian customers upgrade their products to deliver best-in-class seasonal energy efficiency.

“Raising the technological bar is at the core of our business. Copeland is leading the charge by safeguarding the world's most critical goods, especially food and pharmaceutical products, through efficient and sustainable cold chain solutions”, said Sandeep Gupta, vice president & managing director, India for Copeland. “Our recent India investment commitment and participation at Refcold 2024 reaffirms Copeland’s leadership in advancing refrigeration solutions for its customers in India.”

In its seventh year, REFCOLD, an initiative by ISHRAE (The Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers), brought the industry stakeholders together to address key challenges and opportunities for the food industry. Copeland led key discussions on the requirements of India's cold chain market and was the main sponsor of the annual Refcold Awards recognizing outstanding contributions and innovations of India’s cold chain solutions.